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SURREALISM AS TACTIC: A BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
SURREALISM AS TACTIC: A BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
CAAPP BLACK STUDY SPRING 2026 | Feb 24th – 26th
Tuesday, February 24th | 6-8PM
Black Experimental Film Screening & Community Workshop with Rainbow Serpent
LOCATION: ALMA | LEWIS Gallery (6901 Lynn Way, Suite 206)
On February 24, 2026 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP) and Rainbow Serpent are partnering to host the Black Experimental Filmmaking Community Workshop at ALMA | LEWIS. The workshop is part of CAAPP’s Spring 2026 Black Study Surrealism as Tactic: A Black Film Festival. The evening will consist of discussion surrounding the process of audiovisual filmmaking, afrofuturism, surrealism, as well as a screening of the film Blackstar Sanctuary.
This workshop will feature a film screening, interactive craft discussion, and generative session about audiovisual filmmaking, collective study, ritual, and why Black surrealism/experimental modes/African spiritual cosmologies and aesthetics are methods of urgent artistic response in our contemporary moment. Come learn and hear from the co-founders of Rainbow Serpent. Black filmmakers, community filmmakers, and those interested in Black experimental art are encouraged to RSVP for a seat in this limited-capacity event.
Wednesday, February 25th | 4:30-7PM
Book Talk & Reception: TIFFANY E. BARBER, Undesirability & Her Sisters
In Partnership with the Department of History of Art & Architecture
LOCATION: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (650 Schenley Drive)
Thursday, February 26th | 6-9PM
Film Screening: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (dir. by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
Conversation: MADELEINE HUNT-EHRLICH, TIFFANY E. BARBER, & JOY PRIEST
In Partnership with Carnegie Museum of Art
LOCATION: Carnegie Museum of Art Theater (4400 Forbes Ave)
